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Welcome to The Military Vaccine Resource Directory. This site is a resource directory for active-duty service members, veterans, and others who are concerned about the military's mandatory bioterrorism vaccines. Here you will find an overview of these vaccines, news about developments in the field, support groups, health care tips, medical and legal resources, and more.

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Help veterans who were grievously wronged: Correct service records for all who were punished with dishonorable discharges and more when the DoD anthrax vaccine was illegal & they refused it. White House petition: http://wh.gov/Pzu. Please help spread the word and sign our petition!

"From 1955 to 1975, military researchers at Edgewood were using not only animals but human subjects to test a witches' brew of drugs and chemicals. They ranged from potentially lethal nerve gases like VX and sarin to incapacitating agents like BZ."

Has the Pentagon stopped the experiments? What for? No one is enforcing the law, and because of the Feres Doctrine (see tab at left) our service members cannot sue for having their health ruined.

Government considers testing anthrax vaccine in kids but faces ethical questionsAP - Friday October 28, 2011Should the anthrax vaccine be tested in children? It will be a while longer before the government decides. An advisory board said Friday that ethical issues need to be resolved -- but if that can be accomplished the vaccine can be tested in children to be sure it's safe and to learn the proper dose in case it's needed in a terrorist attack. Because of concerns that terrorists might use the potentially deadly bacteria, the government has stockpiled the vaccine. It has been widely tested on adults but never on children.

Commentary:Widely tested on adults? Indeed. It remains an experimental vaccine that has been forced upon our service members for years; this is not called testing, it's called medical experimentation on human beings without their consent. And these years of testing have resulted in over 21 deaths (read the vaccine label) and countless service members, both men and women, whose health has been permanently destroyed as a result. And our benign, ever-considerate government now has our children in its gunsights.

Because more and more reports are appearing citing vaccine failure, their manufacturers answer is to make the vaccines more potent. They do this by making the immune adjuvants more powerful or adding more of them. The problem with this approach is that in the very young, the nutritionally deficient and the aged, over-stimulating the immune system can have an opposite effect--it can paralyze the immune system.

This is especially prevalent with nutritional deficiency.

Safety rules can't keep up with biotech industryby Andrew Pollack and Duff Wilson - New York Times - Thursday May 27, 2010"Whether handling deadly pathogens for biowarfare research, harnessing viruses to do humankind's bidding or genetically transforming cells to give them powers not found in nature, the estimated 232,000 employees in the nation's most sophisticated biotechnology labs work amid imponderable hazards. And some critics say the modern biolab often has fewer federal safety regulations than a typical blue-collar factory. Even the head of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration acknowledges that his agency's 20th-century rules have not yet caught up with the 21st-century biotech industry. 'Worker safety cannot be sacrificed on the altar of innovation,' said David Michaels, OSHA's new director. 'We have inadequate standards for workers exposed to infectious materials.' [...] three trends are stoking concern among safety advocates. In the wake of the 2001 anthrax attacks, the federal government stepped up research involving biowarfare threats, like anthrax, Ebola and many other o...

U.S. government stockpiles new, safer smallpox vaccineby Steve Sternberg - USA Today - Tuesday May 25, 2010"The U.S. government has begun bolstering its smallpox vaccine stockpile with a new version designed to close a gap that left millions vulnerable to a bioterror[ism] attack. The vaccine, Denmark-based Bavarian Nordic's Imvamune, is made with modified vaccinia ankara, a safer alternative to the cowpox vaccines used for generations. Company officials say the first shipments arrived in the U.S. Strategic National Stockpile last week, within hours of a World Health Organization ceremony marking eradication of the disease, widely regarded as one of the great public health achievements of all time. [...] Though natural transmission has ceased, the virus lives in freezers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and possibly [sic] in Russia, where Soviet scientists are believed to have created tons of weaponized smallpox [virus]. The breakup of the Soviet Union and the rise of global terrorism led the USA a decade ago to begin stockpiling vaccine."

Tuesday February 09, 2010The winner of the "Outstanding Thesis Award" for cohort 0803/0804 goes to Lt. Col. Thomas Rempfer for his in-depth study of the events leading to current policies that control the production and distribution of the Anthrax vaccine.

The US and Viet Nam are just NOW talking about the effects of Agent OrangeFriday September 25, 2009I just posted this article under the VA section of this site, with no small amount of astonishment that here we are, about 40 years later, and our government is just NOW willing to talk about the Vietnamese who were injured by Agent Orange, the same as our own troops were? Just now?

Congressional General Accounting Office (GAO) Findings on the Safety and Efficacy of the Anthrax Vaccine. NSIAD-00-54R -- Abstract -- "The long-term safety of the vaccine has not been studied"

GAO -- Medical Readiness: Safety and Efficacy of the Anthrax Vaccine. T-NSIAD-99-148 -- Abstract -- "The nature and magnitude of the military threat of biological warfare (BW) has not changed since 1990"

Anthrax Vaccine: GAO's Survey of Guard and Reserve Pilots and Aircrew. GAO-02-445 -- Abstract -- "systemic reaction rate reported through the survey represents a level more than a hundred times higher than the 0.2 percent published in the product insert."

Presidential Candidate George W. Bush, US Medicine. Sep. 2000:"The Defense Department's Anthrax Immunization Program has raised numerous health concerns and caused fear among the individuals whose lives it touches. I don't feel the [Clinton] administration's anthrax immunization program has taken into account the effect of this program on the soldiers in our military and their families. Under my administration, soldiers and their families will be taken into consideration."

Presidential Candidate Sen. John McCain, San Diego Union Tribune. Feb. 26, 2000:"I think that there should be a pause. I think that they have not done the job in educating the members of the military, and I would pause and I would get the best scientific and medical people together and make a better argument than they've made ... I'm not saying that I know enough to say that it should never be, but right now members of the armed services, the Guard and reserves are not accepting it."

Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, Pentagon News Briefings, Oct. 18, 2001:"We're going to try and save it. There have been other efforts that have failed over a period of years. And it may or may not be savable ... it's not very well underway, as you point out ... they have not been approved by the FDA, as I understand it. They do not have what looks to be -- well, I shouldn't be characterizing a private entity that way, but things have not been going swimmingly for them ..."

Sen. Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader, CNN. Dec. 18, 2001:"The vaccine is a dated vaccine, it's an old vaccine. There are very real and potentially serious side effects from the vaccine and anyone who elects to receive the vaccine needs to be made aware of that. I do not recommend widespread inoculation for people with the vaccine in the Hart Building ...There are too many side effects and if there is limited chance of exposure the side effects would far outweigh any potential advantage."

Al Gore, Presidential Candidate, Apr. 11, 2000:"I feel the concerns are genuine. I also know that sometimes concerns of this sort are based on confusing data that is hard to interpret. But based on the concerns I have heard from military personnel directly, I think we are justified in taking a closer look -- I think that some increased sensitivity to the kinds of questions that are being raised is needed."